Agreed!!!
I can't believe some of the crap I am seeing here.
The paradox of highway construction is that highways CAUSE congestion, not relieve it. LA is a pefect example. This is not an idea I came up with, it has happened time and time again across the country. The reason why is simple. You build, then the suburbs get built and eventually the capacity of that road is met and then exceeded. It becomes congested. Which is bad enough, but at the same time these new commuters are travelling into the city and adding to the traffic, eating up vast amounts of space for their parking needs, and then at 5 PM taking the paycheck home (so the city has to pick up the tab for taking care of the guys needs, but doesn't get anything for the work they have to put in).
Cars are city killers.